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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : variant of Zagarella, from a diminutive of Sicilian zagara ‘orange flower’ (a derivative of Arabic zahr).
  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a maker of ribbons, laces, and the like, from Old Sicilian zacharella ‘string’, ‘ribbon’, ‘lace’.

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